After two rounds, four days, 48 games and one Sister Jean, here are the NCAA tournament's winners and losers so far.

Winner: Sister Jean

Our local treasure has become a national star. Bless her heart.

Loser: Thomas Jefferson

The third U.S. president and principal author of the Declaration of Independence might never have founded the University of Virginia had he known the Cavaliers would become the first men’s No. 1 seed to lose to a 16 seed — by 20 points.

Winner: Brad Underwood

The Illinois coach drew some applause from his fellow panelists after being introduced on Turner Sports’ tip-off show. “I’m a very fortunate man,” he said. Indeed. Underwood was able to give his program some pub without actually having to talk about his team, which got knocked out on the first day of the Big Ten tournament.

Winner: TruTV

The television home to such cultural gems as “Impractical Jokers” and “Bobcat Goldthwait’s Misfits & Monsters” briefly gets a whole new clientele to watch a few tournament games, assuming people can find it on their TVs. Bonus points for this year’s self-deprecating promo campaign referring to this as “TruTV Awareness Month.”

Loser: NCAA tournament selection committee

Loyola is an 11 seed. Syracuse, last team in the field, also got an 11. That means that Loyola would have been denied a spot had it stumbled in the Missouri Valley Conference tournament. Hello … McFly? Have you watched the Ramblers? The resume and eye test make it obvious this team should have been seeded around 8.

Winner: Being the No. 11 seed

While Loyola might have wished to be seeded No. 8, it’s one of two No. 11 seeds to have advanced to the Sweet 16. No eighth-seeded teams survived the first weekend.

The more CBS pushes the annual tournament as “a tradition unlike any other,” the more it comes to seem like every other long-running TV sports event. Real tradition is like old money. Those who have it realized long ago that it’s gauche to advertise it.

Winner: 1998 Harvard women’s basketball team

No. 16 seed University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s historic upset of top-seeded Virginia was a first for the men’s NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament, but not unprecedented. The upset was cause to recall Harvard’s 16th-seeded women downing No. 1 Stanford 71-67 in their Division I tournament 20 years earlier.

Winner: DePaul women’s basketball

Loyola is Chicago’s only Sweet 16 team, but the DePaul women had a heck of a season. That’s past tense because fourth-seeded Texas A&M, playing on its home court, rallied from 17 down to go ahead with 3.2 seconds remaining to oust No. 5-seeded DePaul on Sunday in the second round of the NCAA women’s tournament.

Winner: Seton Hall investors

When is a meaningless last-second 3 not so meaningless? When it trims Kansas’ victory margin to four and Seton Hall is a 4.5-point underdog.

The Naperville Central alumna gave the death stare to a monitor showing Loyola squeezing out a victory over her alma mater, Tennessee. Parker handled the loss with class, making an appeal to Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt: “If you are willing to allow me to jump on the bandwagon of Loyola, I am willing to join the party. I am sorry. I was wrong. I will never doubt Sister Jean again.”

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Be afriad: The Providence Friar's mascot.

Be afriad: The Providence Friar's mascot. (Associated Press)

Loser: Friar Dom

Arguably the nation’s most horrifying mascot (yes, even more than Purdue Pete) lost its chance to continue haunting the dreams of college basketball fans everywhere, when Providence lost Friday to Texas A&M.

Winner: Zach Seidel

The most satisfying way to relive UMBC’s historic first-round upset of top-seeded Virginia is not by watching a replay of the game or even highlights. Read Seidel’s official @UMBCAthletics Twitter feed. Its salty, self-assured tone will make you smile (unless perhaps you are a Virginia fan or leaned too heavily on the Cavs in your bracket).

ESPN.com reported that more money was wagered on Arizona (15-1 odds) to win it all than any other team. And one South Point (Vegas) bettor made a money-line wager of $10,000, figuring heavy favorite Arizona would beat Buffalo in the first round. The Wildcats got drilled 89-68.

Winner: Sheldon Jacobson

A computer science professor at the University of Illinois, Jacobson has developed a formula that predicts NCAA tournament upsets twice as often as someone picking winners at random. His computer model yielded two potential upsets this year, both in the South region: No. 14 Wright State failed to upend No. 3 Tennessee, but No. 13 Buffalo beat No. 4 Arizona. Talk about upsets. Who knew the Illini would chalk up a win this postseason?

Winner: Iceland

Not only did this nation of 334,000 people qualify for the World Cup (whereas the United States, population 325 million, did not), freshman shooting guard Jon Axel Gudmundsson of Grindavik, Iceland, emerged as a college star in Davidson’s loss to Kentucky.

With UCLA and Arizona State failing to get out of Dayton in their First Four games and Arizona falling in the round of 64, the 0-3 Pac-12 was out of the NCAA tournament by Thursday’s end. Somehow the 5-0 start in the NIT thanks to opening-round victories by USC, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Stanford doesn't make that smell any better.

Winner: Schadenfreude

Less than 12 hours before the Buffalo Bulls ousted the Arizona Wildcats in the opening round of the tournament, the Sultan of Certainty himself, FS1's Skip Bayless, tweeted: “I’m picking Arizona to win it all as a 4 seed.” It was a victory for the Bulls, a crushing defeat for BS. Bye, son.